St. Olaf College

Jerry Vandermark

Contemporary glass artisan
United States

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Jerry Vandermark is/was an American glassblower. Vandermark was the apprentice of Carl Erickson in Bremen, Ohio, but would later take his career to Virginia. There, he was the director of the Colonial Glasshouse for the National Park Service at Jamestown, where his goal was to recreate the first glasshouse in the United States. In Jamestown, he trained other glassblowers for what would becomes the Vandermark Glasshouse of Liberty Village in Flemington, New Jersey.

In 1972, Vandermark retired from Jamestown and started the Vandermark-Merritt Glass Studios, Inc., alongside Doug Merritt in New Jersey. Glassworks from this studio are housed in many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as numerous private collections. Currently, only Doug Merritt is still working at the Glass Studios.

Madison Duran ‘20
March 2019

Sources:


“Vandermark Hand Blown Art Glass Hearts Perfume.” Bungalow Brothers, Articents,
www.articents.com/BungalowBrothers/listing/Vandermark-Hand-Blown-Art-Glass-Hearts-
Perfume#sthash.mWMwN35p.dpbs.
“Vandermark-Merritt Bio | The Longworth Gallery.” The Longworth Gallery,
www.thelongworthgallery.com/vandermark-merritt.
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